When American settlers arrived in California 150 years ago, the sprawling Central Valley was home to the ... over the region soon drained the lake and covered it in crops, helping make it one ...

Imagine waking up to find a massive lake where your farm used to be. That’s exactly what happened to farmers in California’s ...

where the vast Tulare Lake once existed.Credit ... It is no secret to locals that the heart of California’s Central Valley was once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi ...

The historic winter storms that filled California’s reservoirs and covered ... of the Central Valley. That amounts to about 2.5 times the total storage capacity of Lake Mead, the country ...

Lake Shasta was 115% of average for this time of year and Trinity Lake was 116% of average. Both are Central Valley Project reservoirs. Lake Shasta is the largest reservoir in California and is ...

and Trinity Lake was 116% of average. Both are Central Valley Project reservoirs. Lake Shasta is California's largest reservoir and the keystone in the Central Valley Project. Lake Shasta was 97% ...